Too loud!
I hope my future children are quiet. I’ve found that I get overstimulated very easily by loud noises, especially at night. I need about an hour of near-silence before I can chill out enough to go to sleep. I haven’t gotten a single good night’s sleep this week, because I’ve been rehearsing every night until 10 or 11, and of course that’s a very loud experience, so it takes a long time of lying around in silence to recover.
I also don’t like loud noises in the morning. It freaks me out when people are being loud and chatty around the coffee maker at work. I can’t talk until I’ve had coffee, but how else am I supposed to get at the coffee except by passing through the Chat Zone? [Edited to add: yes, I could make coffee at home. But that would require getting up early enough to make the coffee and drink it without burning myself. Challenges, challenges.]
Anecdotal evidence from my friends and relatives indicates that children shriek a lot, including but not limited to night time. Hm. Are child muzzles legal?
Never once, in all your babyhood, did you ever shriek. In fact, you hardly ever cried at all, even when you so kindly gave away your pacifier to that poor little baby who didn’t have enough money to buy her own.
Thanks, Mub. That’s a good sign. I should ask Cheryl if Denny was a shrieker.
I wouldn’t count on genetics being a good indication of shriek ability. The nice thing is that you really, really don’t care so much about the shrieking of your own child. I thought I’d care, but I don’t. And believe me, I’m the kind of person who has no patience for shrieking children. I think having a kid would really blow your mind, in the best way possible.
Denny was not a shrieker. He was a very sweet child. It makes my heart melt to think about those days.
blissfully, I was not a shreiker, and neither was Sayali. so that may very well be at least partly genetic.
She is not, however, a QUIET child. It seems that there are actually alot of other ways for a kid to make noise besides shrieking. LKets see, to name a few–tap dancing, incessant talking, making zoo animal noises, casting spells a la Harry Potter. Oh, and then there would be noises stemming from general toddler-klutziness–the tripping, falling, jumping, and running.
But, the good news is I think that somewhere with the changing hormones of pregnancy, your noise filter gets a bit better. However, that said, notice that I generally must have an hour or two of isca time, before I can POSSIBLY sleep after a full day wtih Miss thing.
I’m pretty sure I was a quiet child, but Daphne can be a bit… umm… lively. This actually increases with proximity to bedtime, I’m afraid.
She was supremely well-behaved as a baby, though. It’s the toddlerness that’s brought out the devil in her.